I am a returns specialist in Hades. In my job, ya’ get to meet all kinds of people. Oh, you’re wondering what I am doing here and how come I have this job. I admit this job is a lot worse than I thought I could get. Just so you know, with the economic downturn, it was tough to find a position. I took the first job available to me. I should have known it was not as advertised; the first interview with HR was with some demon that smelled like sulfur. Then there was the management interview, if you can call it that. All I can say is my friends in the Nazi Party had nothing on this guy. So we clicked. Then of course, the last interview was with the big guy himself. It was a hell of an interview. I took the job. What the heck; marry the night. For a while, it was interesting with the coming of the Second World War and all. Then afterwards, those trials and things, damn it was like old home week seeing my old cronies. I didn’t get to talk to them. My friends never got near the returns desk. Every one of them buzzed on by, with me coughing up their smoke.  Read more...

…To Our New Renewable Fuel Source: Coal!

How can this be? You ask. Any idiot knows that coal is formed from organic matter compressed and heated by mass and time. And by any measure, a fuel source that takes three-hundred-million years to renew hardly fits the term Renewable.

Well think again. Apparently, we are not dealing with just any idiot here. Or even one idiot. Which reminds me of that old IT saying: “Strive to idiot-proof your software knowing the real problem is they are building bigger and better idiots every day.”  Read more...

Entertainment:

Another talent-challenged starlet was arrested yesterday in Los Angeles on drug charges and murder. In 1947, the famous Black Dahlia Murder took place in the same city. Murder charges are quite typical this time of year…

Crime:

Today in New York City, thirteen people were killed when an unemployed engineer destroyed a subway car. Of course, this is not the only time a subway car has been destroyed. In fact, this tragedy doesn’t even rate in the top ten. In 1930s, on the eve of World War Two, a pair of subway cars collided killing…  Read more...